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MONDAY, JAN. 4: Reinsdorf flies to New York City for the final owners' meeting before the Jan. 6 deadline set for canceling the NBA season. From the plane he tries to call Jordan who, he discovers, is in the Bahamas playing golf. He phones Jordan's agent, David Falk, who can't reach his client. Reinsdorf then calls Jackson at his new house in upstate New York to ask whether he won't change his mind about coaching. Jackson pleasantly chuckles a no, probably holds back on offering a koan about one-year contracts...
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 6: At 6 a.m., after 12 hours of haggling, NBA commissioner David Stern and players' union director Billy Hunter reach an agreement. By mid-afternoon, the players ratify it. Bulls guard Steve Kerr, a free agent, arrives in New York for a players' meeting to discover the deal has been made. "All of a sudden, it focused: 'Wow. We all have to get jobs,'" he says. Kerr calls his agent, who has already received half a dozen offers. Kerr, though, wasn't going to consider other offers until he knew whether Jordan was returning. Bill Wennington, the Bulls...
THURSDAY, JAN. 7: The NBA will not allow owners to call agents until Friday. In his office on the second floor of the Berto Center in Chicago, general manager Krause looks down at an empty practice floor. On his wall hangs a felt board listing every NBA team's players, categorized under lists: free agents, injured, on roster. Under the Bulls' on-roster section, it lists only Ron Harper, Toni Kukoc, Keith Booth and Randy Brown. Free agents: the 10 other players, including Jordan, Scottie Pippen and Dennis Rodman. Below them are listed three draft picks the Bulls have...
Strong competition may bring most fans back to the NBA. Nevertheless, the professors say the lockout was a losing proposition for both players and owners...
...despite the negative outcome of the last six months, do the professors think the players and owners of the NBA learned their lesson...